On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:12:24AM -0500, Tony Shadwick wrote: > I just pitched a proposal to a client that is purchasing a Macintosh > X-Serve. A tape changer drive is a bit pricey for their tastes, so they > chose to go with a pair of large firewire hard drives that I take off site > every few days. > > What I'm trying to decide is which would be more simple. A cron job running > some sort of copy command nightly (which, btw...I'm not sure which one I'd > use! ditto, cp (insert dozens of switches here), dd), or to use amanda to > dump to the drive. > > The goal would be to have something to where if the machine failed, recovery > would be as painless as plugging the firewire drive into another mac.
Neither amanda, nor backup programs in general have this goal. > Anyone have experience with this first hand? Useful speculation from > experienced amanda users? No experience, but isn't that the task that rsync is intended for, synchronize two directory trees? I think that is how many mirror'ed websites are maintained. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
